Friday, March 16, 2012
Welcome to the newest thing that is driving the Right Wing batshit crazy at Bill Maher.
This was a video segment featured on last Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
It was filmed by Alexandra Pelosi (Yes the daughter of THAT Pelosi!), who swears she did not TRY to find toothless idiots in Mississippi, she simply couldn't avoid them:
Filmmaker (and daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) Alexandra Pelosi traveled to Mississippi at the behest of Real Time with Bill Maher to film voters and get their opinions of the 2012 Republican primary. Before showing the footage, Maher explained to the audience and his panel of guests that the people in the video were not “cherry-picked” and that the intent of the video was not to make fun of anyone.
Of course that pledge not to make fun of them did not last long. Since then many on the Right Wing, have been up in arms that Pelosi and Maher had the audacity to show the average dimwitted supporter of the Republican party in such an unfortunate light. (In other words, with the lights on.)
So what was Pelosi to do, spend days driving around Mississippi looking for somebody with as full set of teeth who didn't sound like an extra from the movie "Deliverance?" Who has that kind of time?
Personally I found the video inspiring. For instance it has inspired me to NEVER go to Mississippi for any reason.
(If you are currently living in Mississippi, with a full set of teeth and more than two brain cells to rub together, I offer my sincerest apologies for lumping you together with the delightful specimens in the above video. If you still feel the need to express your displeasure please remember that "asshole" is spelled with two S's and one "hole.")
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two ss and hole......I wuv you Gryphen, still laughing and sooooo early in the AM. XOXO
ReplyDeleteAs a person who was born/raised right next door to Mississippi, I can affirm that this video reflects my own experience with the residents of that state pretty accurately.
ReplyDeleteI was friends with a public school vocal teacher who started her career in Alabama. She was stunned at the lack of education of the parents of her students and said something to her principal. He explained, "Look, these people are unedcuated. They marry other uneducated people, and have uneducated kids who repeat the cycle. You can't save them all." (In truth, he used the word "stupid," but I was trying to be nice.) And if this is what Democrats are up against, it is indeed a miracle that Obama won!!! Keep them coming, God! (Miracles, that is...and while you're at it, can you do something about these ridiculous people?)
ReplyDeleteO.M.G.!!!
ReplyDeleteHoly shit!
ReplyDeleteC'mon--even I say she found these toothless fools too easily.
She could have at least gone to a town with running water . . .
I love the one toothed guy in the shack insisting that though voting republican has never helped him, he'd keep voting for them because
one day---it might.
Whoa! Public education and the state of Mississippi sure did fail these
poor people. And boy do they love them some Jesus. I suppose they should have faith because they sure don't have brains or common sense.
Check out the guy's pupils. Meth is surely rampant. Being poor is not a sin but stupid is as stupid does.
DeleteAnother example of this State's thinking was the chanting of "Where's your green card" directed at Angel Rodriguez of Kansas State by members of the band of Southern Miss yesterday. A real class act! Typical of the thinking/feeling down there.
ReplyDeleteTrying to be nice here~need more coffee. Those are real people??? Good god almighty, please tell me they don't breed.
ReplyDeleteScorpie
They continue to breed 'cause they don't know how it happens or how to stop.
DeleteMeanwhile, here in NYC, the Curse of Palin continues. After sarah was photographed a couple of weeks ago holding a Jeremy Lin NY Knicks jersey, the Knicks have gone on an extended losing streak; head coach Mike D'Antoni has been fired, and Jeremy Lin has been benched.
ReplyDeleteWay to go sarah; King Tut's Curse has nothing on you !!
Whatever she touches turns to shit.
DeleteAnonymousMar 16, 2012 05:48 AM, Great comment - Is it OK with you if I turn your comment into a Tweet?
DeleteGo right ahead!
DeleteYou just can't reason with the stupid and willfully ignorant.
ReplyDeleteWay to degrade people. That attitude is not helping the world.
ReplyDeleteThe Palin's hateful attitude hasn't helped a thing either. Also too.
DeleteShut up Sarah. No one cares what you say. Didn't you get the memo? You're a nobody. Nothing. Relegated to being our troll puppet here on IM. Game Change established for the history books that you're mentally ill, unstable and totally ignorant. Nothing you do or say will change that. What don't you get?
DeleteHoarding conditions explain "The State of Mississippi."
DeleteWow, how classy of IM haters. So you're a fan of degrading people huh? How "republican" of you. Except republicans show more class on their worst day.
Delete6:22 said - "Game Change established for the history books that you're mentally ill, unstable and totally ignorant. Nothing you do or say will change that. What don't you get?"
Deleteuuuuummmmmmmmm....'cause she's mentally ill, unstable and totally ignorant? Just taking a flying wag here, but I think I may have nailed it.
"Anonymous Mar 16, 2012 07:37 AM
DeleteWow, how classy of IM haters. So you're a fan of degrading people huh? How "republican" of you. Except republicans show more class on their worst day."
Shall we list the thousands of right wing/Republican/conservative hate messages directed at John McCain, Meghan McCain, Karl Rove, George Bush, even Ann Coulter -- not to mention the really ugly slurs aimed at our First Family?
BTW, the attacks from you know-nothings that have continued toward Sandra Fluke have given us "permission" to continue to point out Sarah Palin's many faults. Sarah Palin has been in the public eye continuously for the past nearly 4 years, neither she nor her mini-me are "private citizens" any more. You all brought it on yourselves.
Dude, never think for one second they feel degraded. They don't. They, like Palin, revel in their ignorance. They are too lazy to move out of their space in time and are too scared to change. They'd like to be back before the Civil War when any white, no matter how low on the social ladder, was above a black person. SEE HOW THAT WORKS?
DeleteAre you kidding? No one forced them to be interviewed. Alexandra asked some pretty basic questions and all she got was a heap of crap.
DeleteThis is Rush Limbaugh's/Sarah Palin/Fox News and the GOP's target audience.
I haven't watched it here online yet, I'll probably watch it with my DH on TiVo - but I'll tell you what. Any flesh of Pelosi would do well NOT to engage in these kinds of projects. Sincerely, it's only going to enrage Joe The Plumber Patriots across this country.
ReplyDeleteBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....did you say "Joe The Plumber Patriots"??? Old Joe is still around? How funny!
DeleteAlexandra Pelosi has been doing this for years . . ..
DeleteHalf of these people have no idea who she is because an inordinate amount of them don't know their ass from a whole in the ground.
My parents grew up poor in Alabama. But their parents wanted what was best for them. Poverty doesn't mean ignorance--but it does for these souls. This kind of thing should be shown, just like poverty pockets in Detroit and other cities should be laid open.
There needs to be a conversation. Conservatives hate this because their whine has always been that blacks and hispanics only live like this. Believe me--there is equal opportunity ignorance in this country.
This is too big a job for Joe the Plumber - We're in Roto Rooter/porta potty/ cesspool territory.
DeleteLove the "Joe the Plumber Patriots" reference.
What does that entail?
A Bunch of dentally challenged morons armed with plungers?
She shouldn't do these kinds of projects??? Why??? Because it shows the rest of the world that most ignorant, racist southerners vote republican. REPUBLICANS court and cater to these folks. Not one republican has ever gone on record to disavow the hate and ignorance that spews forth from these *fine upstanding citizens. Republicans like $arah Paylin helped create and continue to feed this monster. They OWN it!!! And what the fuck does your comment about enraging the 'Joe the Plumber patriots' mean??? Are you hinting that there will be violence in response to Alexadra's video? Typical rethug!
DeleteMississippi produced William Faulkner, one of the greatest American writers ever. Of course, he couldn't figure out why Mississippians were so fucking stupid either.
ReplyDeleteAs a lover of Southern Gothic literature I have read practically all of Faulkner (and visited his house which is now a museum). I feel that he had a great love and respect for his fell natives.
DeleteThe genre represents realism which some people confuse for hatred or disrespect.
I have been told by a couple of people that Tennessee Williams "hated" women by the way he writes about them. This couldn't be further from the truth because Williams honored and respected women enough to give his female characters full range of emotions and life experiences.
OMG. Tennessee Williams didn't hate women. As a gay man, he identified with women! He may have had issues with his Christian mom as a gay male youth. Anyway, I met Tennessee Williams in the 70's and he was sure nice to me.
DeleteMultiple books, two email releases and a movie haven't stopped Sarah.
ReplyDeleteShe's still standing.
All you have left is a $10 blog and some snark.
Whatcha gonna do now, pick on Bristol ?
You're just obsessed with Sarah aren't you troll? In case you didn't notice, this post is about redneck hillbillies in MS. I know you have an unhealthy obsession with Sarah, but try to stay on topic. Your PDS seems sad and desperate at this point.
DeleteWhy did Bristol name her son after Todd Palin's prostitute Shailey Tripp? That's odd. Is it true that Levi tricked her into it after he saw Todd slinking out the back door of Shailey's business?
DeleteWhere's the birth certificate?
DeleteWhat do you mean it hasn't stopped sarah? She's our puppet here on IM now, not running for office. I would say that's quite a huge success by us. We win. Just admit it and move on.
DeleteSure she is still standing with the help of some serious narcotics, delusion, and the shield of her kids. She is still standing because Roger Ailes has not finished using her yet, and she is still standing because she is so much fun to laugh at. When you are supported by the likes of Ted Nugent, Sean Hannity, The Newt, and Rush, you are just part of the Clown Parade and every party needs a clown.
DeleteHmmm...I think the video, sad to say, reflects pretty well some of the "suckers" that the GOP/Dominionists/Queen Sarah market themselves to attract. You're a patriot if you don't like that Barack Hussein guy, don't want healthcare, want no government (well, except in the case of women's issues and welfare for yourself) and own an armory if only one or two guns would suffice. A low IQ helps to enhance the happy, deluded shell of "patriotism" that surrounds you, especially when you're spoon fed misinformation from the babbling yap of The Palin.
DeleteYou proud of that?
Run along and collect your nickel, now.
Why are none of the trolls speaking about Shailey Tripp's book, Boys Will Be Boys?(thanks for the book's title, Sarah)
DeleteCould their silence indicate that they know the contents of the book are all true and there is written proof to back them up? Or are you all wondering why Sarah & Todd aren't screaming about this book like they did Game Change? Everything in Game Change was real but Sarah's staff was paid to dispute that by saying they were there. They weren't with her 24/7 and they certainly have reason to lie for her just because she signs their paychecks. They know what happened during the campaign and by working with Sarah this long, they've seen her compulsive lying but the money is good, so they stick with her.
Why hasn't Sarah & Todd told their attorney to start a lawsuit against Shailey? Because neither one of them could withstand getting onto a witness stand in a courtroom and having to tell the truth.
Sarah has a lot more to worry about than Game Change but she has kept the focus on the movie simply to keep everyone's eye off of Shailey's book. It won't work, Sarah. We're not as lazy as you and will not stop working to see Todd's ass in jail for his prostitution ring. Your flying monkeys don't mention the book because they can't fight the truth. You're going down, sooner or later, and the longer you try to remain relevant, the faster it will happen. Keep it up, Sarah, you are your own worst enemy.
Your right at home with the peeps on the vid aren't you?
DeleteKeep on with yer magical thinking.
Everyone except those 'tards in Mississippi know what a idiot Baldy is.
Sarah's not running because she was told by her advisors to sit this election out. She does listen to some people.
DeleteI find it entertaining that people have the audacity to call themselves Palin's owner when all your lives revolve around a person you've never met and will never know, due to your inability to see truth.
DeleteSHE OWNS YOUR LIVES and that must piss you off.
Sarah's not running because she is a coward and fears being exposed. She doesn't want her con job to end. She's ripping off people with her PACs. Hopefully she will be in jail for fraud very soon.
Delete"Sarah's not running because she was told by her advisors to sit this election out. She does listen to some people."
DeleteBut I thought we were her only puppet masters! Oh well I guess we can share with her "advisors". Hahaha
"SHE OWNS YOUR LIVES and that must piss you off."
DeleteIs that all you can do is repeat back what we say to you? Don't you have any original thoughts? Everything you say seems to consist solely of what other people have said. It's really quite sad if you think about it. You're simply an empty vessel with just enough brain power to copy and paste what other people say. Very pathetic and sad.
PS - How's that being our puppet thingy workin' out for ya? ;-)
Sarah Palin is a menopausal Crone, who is mentally ill, and married to a pimp who cheated on her during the 2008 election cycle when she was most popular. Why would ANYONE be jealous of that?
DeleteOh gee! A thread about stupid people attracted the Palin Defense Troll. Must mean we're right about Sarah and Bristol, or it wouldn't bother the few, the proud, the toothless.
DeleteThanks for the complement!
Having lived in Mississippi I see Pelosi's film as factual. The poverty in that state is grinding, stunning and like those in the film, far too many accept it. Religion allows many to ignore their own plight. You heard it in the film, they would rather starve than compromise their supposed moral beliefs. The education system in that state is appalling as is the job market and as seen without jobs with insurance/health care no teeth and that's just the things you can see. Many work for themselves so they have no care but they are the first at the emergency room. It's just so depressing.
ReplyDeleteThere are good people in MS but they have no power. It's a state still living by the rules of the confederacy. Even the poorest, uneducated white person ranks higher than the many African Americans that reside there. Sad, truly sad.
I see it as a lack of Education.
DeleteAlthough it has to be more than just that.
In breeding. There I said it. Their retarded from in breeding!
I live in Alabama. When things look bad the saying goes, "At least we're not Mississippi!" This video is the truth. I saw it first hand doing clean up from the Tornado that caused untold destruction last April 27th. The one family I'll never forget had their mobile home destroyed. There was a set of grandparents, mother, father, and a daughter in her late teens. All were obese, grandmother and her daughter had to use those motorized chairs to get around. The youngest girl was "pre-diabetic" while the rest of the family all had full fledged diabetes. They all smoked non-stop the time I worked at the site. I don't think any of them worked as they talked about receiving disability payments and Social Security.
DeleteSeeing this inter-generational poverty and ignorance up front was gut-retching.
I have lived in the south. This is all sadly representative of what is there. BTW- sounds like this was filmed in the hill country.
DeleteI watch Bill every time he's on! While watching, I thought of the white trash Palin family thinking their at the high end of the white trash racists who cling to their guns and religion instead of getting an education. These are the people who like the Palins! The white trash is a tool for the right wing!
ReplyDeleteThey're so stupid, they vote against their own interests.
While I like Ms. Pelosi I cringed when I saw this video on RT last week.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but feel that she didn't do a good job of finding a well rounded mix of people to interview.
As a native of New Orleans I have many relatives on the Gulf Coast of Miss, and our two areas share many things - culture, history and people.
I immediately thought that she was in the northern part of the state by the way the people talked. Not that this matters but again, she clearly did not travel more than a couple of blocks to find any other people to interview.
It is a fun past time of all of us to mock and make fun of imagined or real concepts of how people live in different states, but in reality those people in that clip could be found in any state in our union.
Absolutely, just not nearly as concentrated. And the concentration is what is alarming, one has to ask why?
DeleteQuestion....if and when these people vote, does their ballot have pictures on it? I seriously doubt that they could read one. Talk about "hanging chads"! I'm sure every state has people like the ones in the video. MS is notorious for this problem. You heard him say, it's the Bible Belt. God and Guns. Racism. It's easy for them to interchange Blacks and Muslims in their speech. They think President Obama is both! It's like a race to the bottom of the heap for them. Anything they can do we can do better. Hatred seems to be a Code of Armour for them. How depressing it must be. It has to be Obama's fault for their situation as he is black and Muslim and is taking away their rights. God is taking sides against them and the "Haley Barbour's" planted the seed. I'm sure their life was much better when Bush was in office!
DeleteIt's like that in FL too. The coastal areas and Orlando have the tourists. The rest of the state are hard working migrants and these type of militantly ignorant, lowest socio-economic class whites.
DeleteShe could have interviewed in affluent areas - you would have heard the same sentiments and the same willful ignorance delivered on a whiff of magnolia.
And that one guy is wrong. They won't die for their magical belies (he calls them morals, they're not). Look what happened with their personhood amendment - the minute it was explained, even the lowest of the low LCD voter saw the illogic.
Please. Gryphen. This insults the intelligence of your entire reader group. How is this any different from blaming every black person in the neighborhood when one black person anywhere commits a crime? We all recognize the film shows us only the direst poverty and the least educated people the film makers could find. Those people could have been filmed anywhere in the continental United States. In fact, most of Europe sees us exactly as portrayed in that ugly little filmlet.
ReplyDeleteBill Maher is the closest thing we lefties have to the fat man, and he is equally unsavory.
omomma, I agree with everything you said except your last comments about Bill Maher. Look, as a Christian, I bristle at some of his comments about religion, and yes, his language has gone over the top on some occasions. But he is nothing, nothing like Rush Limbaugh. Bill Maher actually has a soul and a conscience. Do you know he was one of the very few Hollywood celebrities to insist that Roman Polanski absolutely should be tried for rape, even after decades had passed since the crime? While everyone else in Hollywood was implying that because Polanski was such a legendary artist, he should get a pass, Bill Maher was practically the only one to say NO.
DeleteAnd, he does care about the sick and the poor, unlike Rush Limbaugh, best I can tell.
i agree. bill m is rush l from the other side
Deleteboth are blowhards. both are ugly. both only represent themselves.
wrong dip.
Deletethese people were not hunted down.
picked at random and if you believe these type of people exist in some tiny little spot your as ignorant as they are.
because they totally represent the mindset of white people in Mississippi.
and your wrong again comparing racism to these mindless excuses for human beings.
or maybe you dont understand what you just saw IS representative of southern whites who form the so called right wing of the repulican party.
and last time I looked rush talks directly to these idiots.
Maher like him or not does not count on racism and idiots to stay on the air.
palin and white politicians DO!
People from Alaska making fun of people from Mississippi is like when folks here in Kentucky rag on people from W. Virginia.
DeleteMost of Europe doesn't think of Americans as portrayed in this film ; they see them as beautiful people out of Hollywood movies, with an ignorant and arrogant self-centered attitude.
DeleteOf course, we see the American tourist a lot - he's not as thin nor as tall as the American movie star, and he's usually quite nice.
But deep down, Europeans believe Americans to be just like them.
So Europeans are flabbergasted when they go in the southern states, and they find out that the white males are actually much shorter than them, and they all have the most horrible hairstyles. They look like time stopped in the 50s.
European, they wish time had stopped sometime before the 1860's.
DeleteWhat Jade Z said, and then some.
DeleteWhile I DO have compassion for the plight of poor people, there's no way I could defend the mindset of willful ignorance and racism shown in the people interviewed in this clip. It's clear they haven't learned from the past and are destined to repeat history. They're easily manipulated.
Mississippi is still burning.
And furthermore;) if you ever do have the opportunity to go to Mississippi, do not miss the beautiful little towns along the Mississippi River or at the Gulf Coast. There are landscapes of heartbreaking beauty there.
ReplyDeleteMississippi is a beautiful state with many wonderful people. And I so agree with what you said before, above. Shame on you, JadeZ.
DeleteWhat is "heartbreaking beauty"?
DeleteI've visited Mississippi and other states in the south, not a big fan of brushing an entire state with a broad brush, but aside from the "tourist" areas, I did meet many nice people.
DeleteBut there are places still fighting the civil war.
One of the nice people I met, was at a gas station where I had spent 70 dollars for gas, an oil change, and a tire repair. Just before leaving, our son, who was 7 at the time, was thirsty and asked for a "red pop" (soda). I went back in the store for change for a dollar, the man who just accepted my money for repairs and gas unlocked the drawer, ran his fingers through the change, slammed the door shut and said "We ain't got no change for yankees".
I was seriously offended and asked politely for change and he repeated himself louder. I said "But my yankee money was good enough to fix our car and get gas"
To which he said "That's cause we don't want no yankees to get stuck here".
From what I could tell, he had a full set of teeth.
And the "landscapes WERE of heartbreaking beauty there". Not as heartbreaking as giving my young (white, if that matters) son a "teachable moment" in ignorance and the Civil War.
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DeletePresident Obama is the roadrunner
Sarah Palin is the seventh dwarf.
There, I put it in terms you could understand.
i am a person who despises being labeled and put in a box that i can never escape. i dislike the limited focus of this video, and i dislike the folks who think it represents anyone but the few people on tape. gimme a break. snark is so degrading, and bill maher does not represent me in any way.
ReplyDeletelet us all speak for ourselves, eh?
I would like to see a reporter on the ground in the areas that were devastated by hurricane Katrina. It is so sad. What does the devastated area look like now....where did the people go? We were not told the truth regarding deaths. The governor received permission re: Government money was diverted to improve the naval port and who knows maybe spent on putting gambling houses on land from previously on floating on water.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great video....and I feel represents a whole lot more of the South than MS.
People can make fun of these Southerners all they want, but do you know who the great-grandfathers of these Southerners revered? Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
ReplyDeleteYessir, there was a time when the rural South knew with absolutely no shred of doubt that the Democratic Party spoke for THEM and represented THEIR interests.
Note that I say *they knew this.* The Democratic Party still represents their interests well more than conservatives ever could, but these people don't realize it anymore. That is a longstanding problem that I do not personally see the Democratic Party has made a sustained, determined effort to solve.
To add to my comments, let me give one example of a value issue the Democrats should have seized first and run with: revering the family, as in keeping families together. And do you know what the number one reason behind divorce is? Financial stress. Framing their economic positions in the context of protecting families would go a long way in making these policy positions emotionally compelling to a wide swathe of voters.
DeleteAll the left has is pretension and personal attacks. They are the immoral and classless ones. Just compare blog comments.
Delete@7:33, excuse me? I'm a proud leftist--far to the left of our moderate President--and I object to the way these poor, ignorant Republicans are being mocked rather than pitied and helped.
DeleteYour comment is a classic example of pretension and an immoral, classless, personal attack. Projection, much?
AnonymousMar 16, 2012 07:33 AM, funny you should say that. Your very comment belies your claim about "the left" because your comment is pretension, an attack, and classless.
DeleteYou cannot see that you are hypocritical, can you? I can think of only one class of people that are that lacking of insight into self -- Palinbots.
Let's do compare blog comments, 7:33:
Deletehttp://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39936_Fox_Nation_Commenters_Spew_Hatred_and_Racism_at_First_Lady_Michelle_Obama
Keep it classy!
Good job proving the troll wrong Tessie, not that it's hard but I'm glad to see her refuted so easily. And by the way that's not even a small personal blog...that's FOX NATION. So what do you say troll? You've been proven wrong yet again. *crickets*
DeleteI can't recall which comic said this: "Pandering to get votes in Alabama and Mississippi, Mitt Romney has even removed a couple of front teeth."
ReplyDeleteI was horrified by the interviews. Those were real people, not some characters from a satire. Too bad they reinforce the reputation of the Deep South. I know someone just like the toothless hoarder and he lives in Canada. (But it is also true that he is a racist, sexist, drunken fool. However, he does vote.)
For every one of those featured in the video, we must be able to convince two people to vote for Obama. We have to outnumber these louts or we're doomed.
I love Bill Maher, I love u Gryphen, and those that are critical of either can exercise their right to go elsewhere. Start your own blog.
ReplyDeletebtw.....OMFG!!!! That was disturbingly painful to watch.
Today is my birthday folks...so this is my only comment for today...I dated a a guy from Mississippi and visited him there too...this was more than 25 years ago and this is not what I saw when I was there...but then I was in the city of Jackson...so if this is how folks are living today...that's a damn shame.
ReplyDeletePeace out to the trolls....and Dunne wrote a new article on Baldy and it says that Baldy thinks she's going to be President....
This paragraph should send her bots into a frenzy..
At least one source close to the Palin family in Wasilla, Alaska, has confirmed that Palin "still believes it is God's will" that she serve as president, if not in 2012 then perhaps in 2016. Every move she has made in recent months -- every attack on Romney and Obama, every push for an elongated primary, every speculation about an open convention -- has been issued with this political calculation in mind.
And Andree McLeod had this to say...
People can laugh all they want, but she ain't done. She's only developed a tougher skin through all 'this' and, out of desperation, has to inflict more damage for reasons only Sarah and her constantly-changing set of patrons knows. She has become even more dangerous and desperate
Here's the link...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/sarah-palin-2012_b_1351763.html?ref=tw
I don't believe McLeod has any credibility with any Palin insider matters. That's like saying Gryphen does.
DeleteBtw, that Obama docu makes even staunch democrats puke. It makes The Undefeated must-see tv.
Why trust Dunn? There blatantly dishonest accounts in his book about Sarah's childhood.
Delete"inflict more damage"
DeleteWhat damage? Getting people who otherwise wouldn't be poltically active to fight Obama's dishonesty?
Happy Birthday Gina! Go have a Palin free day!
DeleteWe'll cover the trolls today for you!
Happy Birthday, GinaM!
DeleteHave a happy, happy birthday, GinaM!
DeleteHaha Nice Job Gina! You got the troll all wee-wee'd up with just one of your comments. I love it.
Delete"Btw, that Obama docu makes even staunch democrats puke."
DeleteThis is a lie. Why are you lying troll? Don't be a liar.
"Getting people who otherwise wouldn't be poltically active to fight Obama's dishonesty?"
DeleteAnother lie from the lying troll liar. There are no people "who otherwise wouldn't be poltically [sic] active" "fighting" President Obama. LOL. What a joke.
"There[sic] blatantly dishonest accounts in his book about Sarah's childhood."
DeleteEverything in Dunn's book is 100% FACT confirmed with sources close to Sarah Palin. Why do you keep lying troll? You do realize no one...repeat NO ONE.. believes you right?
Happy Birthday GinaM! I love it when you poke holes in $arah's thin skin! Have fun today, we'll keep that fire under her ass red-hot kiddo!
DeleteHappy Birthday! Gina M.!!
DeleteFYI - Andrew Sullivan has posted about this. Some serious push-back from his readers.
ReplyDeleteOff topic, but LOOK at these pictures of President Obama and Bo! These pictures manage to be both elegant and heartwarming. (Our president looks so cool with the suit jacket over his shoulder while he's bending down to pet his adorable dog.)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.democraticunderground.com/101716743
Oh, and here's a cute video of Bo crashing a news cast on the White House lawn (you can see the Obamas don't keep THEIR dog cooped up in a kennel): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/bo-obama-crashes-tv-promo_n_1340169.html
Sarah Palin writes a tribute to Breitbart and (surprise surprise) makes it all about her (Dunn is so right about her intentions as is Ann Coulter):
ReplyDelete"During the ’08 campaign, the same media that reported breathlessly about an old used tanning bed I purchased to get some sun during the dark Alaskan winter, couldn’t be bothered to investigate Barack Obama’s associations, statements or even his voting record as a state senator. Suntans and what I wore on the campaign trail were more important than Obama’s political background. Unbelievable.
But when you come to think of it, the media didn’t investigate either of our actual political records very closely.
Barack Obama and I both served in political office in states with a serious corruption problem. Though there is a big difference between serving as the CEO of a city, then a state, and regulating domestic energy resources, and being a liberal Community Organizer, bear with me on the comparison. The difference between my record and Barack Obama’s is that I fought the corrupt political machine my entire career (and I have twenty years of scars to prove it) on the local, state, and national level. But Obama didn’t fight the corruption he encountered. He went along with it to advance his career. Graft, cronyism, and quid pro quo are the methods of the Chicago political machine from which he emerged.
You would think the media – those watchdogs of the public trust – would be interested in this. But they refused to vet Barack Obama. With tingles up their legs, they shielded him."
I found it referenced at Little Green Footballs: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40069_Moronic_Convergence-_Sarah_Palin_and_the_Mini-Breitbarts
Would Todd Palin have been able to successfully run his prostitution ring if his wife hadn't been Mayor of Wasilla? Or half-term CEO of Alaska? Divorce Palin's sister and she'll fire those who won't fire the ex-husband. So what if Palin kids sink boats, vandalize 40+ school buses and B&E then vandalize private homes. Todd's sister breaks and enters then robs a house while her 4 year old sits in the car - no problem Palin will get everybody off because she's the mayor of a tiny town and then CEO of Alaska.
DeleteTalk about a "corrupt political machine".
Ms. Palin gets deeper and deeper into thinking she's on the same level as President Obama although she can't remember to call him PRESIDENT Obama. Guess somebody took that index card.
Well, maybe I missed something but that guy without teeth living in what looks like a hoarder's hovel is likely the recipient of some sort of government support - welfare, I mean. Black or white, poverty tends to correlate with poor education (since our public school system is based on local real estate tax funds) and thus perpetuates general ignorance.
ReplyDeleteI can't explain the other racist assholes.
Southern tradition, perhaps? Of course there are exceptions, it might have been good if Ms. Pelosi had found some in the interests of neutrality. This kind of thing does unfortunately allow the GOP to push the "Dems are elitist" mantra. More votes for Republicans, sorry to say - and they will probably go on about this piece for weeks.
It's frustrating, and shows yet again why I am not so keen on Bill Maher. He and his producers have big mouths.
I can't believe someone from the state that gave us Sarah Palin has the nerve to sneer at Mississippi. What you hear coming out of these people's mouths are the same sentiments expressed by the poor and uneducated all over the country, from Spokane to Wasilla to the impoverished hamlets of New Hampshire. Mississippi is the poorest state in the nation, so of course this level of ignorance and fundamentalist thinking widespread will be particularly widespread there.
ReplyDeletePelosi obviously went to the Mississippi Delta region, the poorest district of the poorest state in the nation; she didn't go stick her microphone in the faces of college professors sitting in Starbucks in Oxford.
Rather than sneer at these desperately poor people, liberals and Democrats need to find a way to connect to them, to reach them, to inspire them. Think of all the fat, poor, uneducated women you've seen interviewed at Sarah's nationwide booksignings who say, "Sarah connects to me in a way no one ever has. She's like me, she's the first politician I ever felt as they were talking to me." THAT is what we need to do--not make fun of these people's poverty, ignorance, and ill-health, and alienate them more.
Look at the houses these poor people are living in; that is poverty at the most grinding, dehumanizing level, more like something you'd expect to find in a third world country. At least two of the men interviewed in this segment are obviously suffering from dementia, no doubt exacerbated by poor medical care (Mississippi is also at the bottom for that). I love you, Gryphen, but shame on you for this. (BTW, I don't live in Mississippi, and never have, although I will admit that I live in her almost equally-benighted neighbor, Louisiana.)
Look at the racist biker and the racist old idiot on the porch.
DeleteLook at the man who thinks you can't be an American if you are a muslim. Poverty doesn't necessarily breed racism and hate. Why should anyone feel sorry for them? They'd be saying the same thing if they were wearing oxford shirts--only more politically correct.
You do realize that every one of these men think they are better than any black or hispanic person who is educated, prosperous or just making it in the world--simply because of their white skin? They make my skin crawl.
This isn't just poverty. Some of the best people I know were poor as dirt. These people are something else, they don't want to be enlightened. Especially where there may be a black man at the end of it. I know them. As a child one of these idiots poured bleach in a cup his child let me drink out of--then changed his mind and threw it away in front of my seven year old self.
Take them at their words that they choose their ignorance, jesus and poverty over a better life. And oh yeah--I come from a family of social workers--
Angela, of course it's poverty and ignorance, which comes from the state's abysmal education system, which again comes from the poverty. I'm not asking you to feel sorry for them; I'm talking about the stupidity of liberals reinforcing the GOP meme that we are all a bunch of elitists laughing at hicks. Why shoot ourselves in the foot, just so we can have a few laughs and feel superior? These people are the natural enemies of the GOP, yet the Republicans have succeeded in enlisting them and reinforcing their ignorance and prejudice. That is OUR failure.
DeleteIncidentally, I am Muslim, and not white, and yet, yes, I do feel sorry for them, even though they also infuriate me. Their real problem is a lack of true self esteem (which again comes from the poverty and the ignorance); the only way they can feel good about themselves if they believe they are better than the blacks and the non-Christians.
I agree with most of what you say. I don't understand why so many people post on here as anonymous, though. If you believe in what you say, why don't you put your name in front of it? I am not directing this only at you - but everyone on here. Have the courage of your convictions at least.
DeleteWith so many anonymouses on here it is hard to figure out when a poster is the same poster who said thus and such in another post. I'd like to be able to get a sense of what each poster on here generally thinks, get to know them a little. Is that too much to ask? I think that G should insist that people use some sort of an indentifier and stop allowing anonymous posts.
Linda, is that so you can home in on those identities to enhance your posting experience? I far prefer Anon precisely for the reasons you have so eloquently described.
DeleteI don't come here for conversation with particular posters, per se. If someone wants to respond to my anon posting that's great, and I'll respond back, but beyond that I don't want people to get to know me, really. There are other blogs where that is commonplace and honestly it can get kind of creepy.
Without sounding paranoid, I am quite sure the trolls around here would love it if they could track us by our monikers, also. Why make life easier for them?
I do wish people would stop treating anon posting as some sort of character flaw.
The person above is perfectly entitled to post anonymously, long way of saying...
@7:43-
DeleteYou claim that you see that two of the men are suffering from "dementia" due to lack of "adequate medical care"-
Yet One of the interviewees claims that he "hates Obamacare" and can't wait to get rid of it.
Ms. Pelosi says, "But many people in Mississippi NEED medical insurance"
and he just stares blankly.
They are literally fighting their own progress.
I feel frightened for the children.
Well, lookie all the librul elites and yer book lurnin. I spells it likes I sez it A-T-H-O-L-E.
ReplyDeleteAnd you thir are an athole
why is it all white people?
ReplyDeleteWhy is it all men ? Don't women vote in Mississippi ?
DeleteHey, Gryphen, you made Wonkette this morning.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad but true that America has far too many ignorant racists. Otherwise there would be no business for a company making bumper stickers like this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/racist-anti-obama-sticker_n_1349423.html
America, do not underestimate the cunning nature of the BITCH(666). She is definitely the anti-Christ. One of the other things that this video illustrates is, the bigger their guns, the smaller their brains, and their dicks.
ReplyDeleteLook at these guys closely. With the exception of the toothless former meth addict hoarder, all of them were ordinary middle class guys. I see guys like this (even the motorcycle guy) at my local WalMart every weekend in Wisconsin. Take away the accents and they're there, wearing the same clothes, spouting the same opinions only without the southern accents. This is the white middle class blue collar male that will always vote Republican. They don't change much from state to state.
ReplyDeleteI believe that these guys featured, are more than qualified to serve in the cabinet of the Bitch's administration, when she becomes president of the planet of the Whores.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I am currently running a construction job in Mississippi :( and this is a prime example of rural MS. The only reason my company accepted this job because it is one of 20 restaurants in the contract.
ReplyDeleteThe license plate is not uncommon , nor is the out and out racism, it is alive and well in MS.
(sigh) 3 more months before I am outta here.
Close your eyes and listen to their words. There's no difference from the beliefs that they express and the beliefs that we've heard regularly from the TeaBaggers and hear regularly from many GOP in the Senate and House.
ReplyDeleteIf the video showed well-dressed people in front of mansions and SUVs, the right wouldn't be complaining about it.
As previously stated, Pelosi could have looked FOR DAYS and never found any one better qualified to express their views.... These are Haley's Peeps !!! Haley has spent YEARS perpetuating this species... In most areas of the world, this plague dies out after a generation or two - NOT in Mississippi... Everything that can be done, is done to make sure this species NEVER dies...
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the belly of this beast and I'll tell you straight - EVERYONE of the people in Pelosi's snippet lived within 20 miles of where I grew up AND STILL LIVE THERE TODAY... ANYONE that is defending this way of life and this abject depravity needs to be 'culled'....
"I don't hate Obama because he's black. I don't like him 'cuz he's a "half-breed".
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"The south will rise again". (Yeah, good luck with that!)
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"I hate Obamacare. I think it's totally stupid and pointless.
"But a lot of people in Mississippi need healthcare".
**stares blankly**
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"The most important thing to me is family values".
(Like...Newt Gingrich? John McCain? Herman Cain?)
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"The president needs to be an American- not a Muslim".
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OBAMA 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree
DeleteBut can you please add the dude who said "Family Orientated", he sounded like the most eloquent of the group.
Ya don't need no education if you got Jesus in your life. An ain't no one got more Holy than the Republicans, by God. And if they got God in there life then they wouldn't lie to ya.
ReplyDeleteSo if ya want some faggot nigra muslin commie that thinks everbody's equal then vote liar Democrat. Otherwise, if yer white, then the baby Jesus and Ronald Reagan want you to vote good Republican.
Fuck, Randall,
DeleteI know your post is tongue in cheek but it is really scary to see it all strung together like that.
How can "normal" people go into politics when fucking whackos like TeaBaggers think they can cut your family's phone line and fire bomb your offices?
lots of inbreeding in alaska too
ReplyDeletewhich explains how palin was elected governor
Thank you for posting this. It is in all states, and it is the ignorant racist fringe.
DeleteI am a southerner and love the south. I reject all racism and bullying of any sort. I am a card carrying liberal and will vote for BHO again, proudly. Yes, I am white, have all my teeth and have a couple of college degrees.
Oh Gryph, you kill me, I'm laughing so hard right now...you have a perfect comical way of setting the stage of what we are about to see and i love it! I showed this video to my husband and son a few days ago, and we all were like "wtf? This shit is real!"
ReplyDeleteI'm anxiously waiting for Miss Pelosi's 2nd part where she goes to the city.
blame the inbreds in alaska for palin
ReplyDeletenot the inbreds in mississippi
Shit, these toothless goobers make the cousin humpers blush. These buffoons are SISTER humpers. These dumb asses are still bitter about the South losing the Civil War. They want their slaves back. How can you be that ignorant AND arrogant at the same time?
ReplyDeleteThese shitheads are too stupid by half to realize the cognitive dissonance contained in their own argument. There was a constant them of putting God back in government. The logical extension of their argument is that liberals and Democrats - and BLACKS - are capable of besting their lowercase 'god,' rendering their god a rather meaningless figure who relies on toothless sister humping buffoons for political aid.
It is laughable that they hold themselves up as shining examples of white superiority. Superior to WHAT? I've scraped shit off the bottom of my shoe that I hold in higher regard than these arrogant unwashed white folks.
I am white, but when I note that my skin color is the same as these morons, I certainly don't feel very superior.
I hope Pelosi donated toothbrushes to some of these goobers. I imagine she would also have to instruct these superior white folks on how to use them properly.
THESE are the poster children of the GOP. THIS is their intellectual and moral base.
Well said. Your post made me laugh and I needed one today. :)
DeleteGasman,
DeleteI don't think you need a toothbrush if your teeth are in a cup by your bed...
I just gotta feel sorry for these people.
ReplyDeleteI currently live in California, but will be moving to Mississippi in another year to live with my boyfriend, a native of the state. He lives outside of Jackson, in central Mississippi. The population is much, much more diverse that what Pelosi's video shows, and it's unfortunate that she only focused on a segment of the population that cast the most unflattering light. Sure, there's people like that in Mississippi. But there's also people like that in Southern California, Alaska, and just about any state in the US. Mississippi doesn't have a monopoly on poverty/ignorance just like California doesn't have a monopoly on education/intellect.
ReplyDeleteThat video is spin, plain and simple, and if it's not then I'd really like to see Pelosi go to Central and Coastal Mississippi and conduct interviews there instead.
The View From Mississippi: Dissent Against The Dissents
ReplyDeletehttp://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/03/the-view-from-mississippi-dissents-against-the-dissents.html
Okay, and for all you lovers of the Onion, here's their classic article from 2000. "The South Postpones Rising Again"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theonion.com/articles/south-postpones-rising-again-for-yet-another-year,377/
Those are the more likeable Republican voters. Don't forget the Country Club 1%ers who smugly delight in their neighbors' ignorance.
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, Wasilla and for many other places in Alaska is NOT that different from Mississippi. Maybe a notch or two above, but you have to live in Alaska to understand my saying this. I completely understand why Sarah Palin is the way she is - you must consider the environment she was raised in - she is simply a product of it. So that should clear up a lot about why Sarah detests educated people, and has the NASCAR crowd, toothless, stupid, and inbred crowd still rooting for her. Her obsession with President Obama? She wants to get 'even' the score (he won, she lost) and his ignoring her just drives her more nuttier. She wants revenge.
ReplyDeleteI've come to the conclusion you must be, at the minimum, slightly mentally ill to live in Alaska. This is why I left the state and why I don't go back even to visit the relatives. In other words, (most) Alaskans are friggin' nuts - of which Sarah is good at - draining MEN's nuts.
This thread is not about Palin.
DeleteUsed to live in Mississippi. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE place. Being military we lived all over but hands down I would never go there again, not even to visit. Saw the video on Maher's show and those people are exactly why Rick Santorum won the primary. EWWWWWWWWWW............
ReplyDeleteMississippi's schools have been in the bottom of the nation for I don't know how long. Obviously generations.
ReplyDeleteIt's a example of how a national education policy and control might be an improvement over states rule. Having an educated populace is a country's strength. It seems all industrialized major powers recognize this except the U.S. They have national public education, national standards, national funding. The U.S. wants a bargain, they want discount education, they want schools on the cheap. That is why teachers are being attacked. They are educated professionals that wish to be paid and treated as such. Whereas those making the decisions want teachers treated as the part time help at Walmart and compensated as such.
This is were education reform should concentrate. Reforming the way our schools are funded and standardizing curriculum across the nation. The core standards are a step in the right direction. At least Mississippi signed on to the. (Alaska and Texas taking a pass last I heard.)
Teacher training and credentialing needs to be standardized across the nation in addition to standardizing curriculum and funding. Without reforming these basics, anything else is shallow and transient.